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Panta-loon Hanger. No. 230,513. v Patented July 27,1880,

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PANTALOONS-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,513, dated July 27,1880. Application filed May 21, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, SHERBURN WHEEL- WRIGHT,a citizen of the United ,States, residin g in the city, county, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinPantaloons-Hangers; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,

making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to rods for suspending pantaloons by the waistband.

It has for its object the supply of a very I 5 light metallic supportingdevice which shall be adapted to all sizes of pantaloons ,and which willserve to gently stretch the waistband and support it fully, both fromthe back and front buttons, without sagging, and to afford, by means ofa central hook, a ready means of han ging up the pantaloons thussupported free from objectionable folds or creases.

It consists in the formation of a light truss to serve as the supportingdevice or hanger, the truss being composed of an upper rod of metalcurved from end to end, and whose eX- tremities project to engage thepantaloons, and of a second lower curved rod whose ends are secured tothe first at points equidistant 0 from its center, and which is placedwith its curve reversed, so that an elliptical space shall be includedbetween the two, the truss being completed by a central cross-rodarranged to tie and brace apart the two longitudinal curved 5 rods inthe middle. The projecting ends of the upper rod are each bent orcorrugated to form one or more loops or notches to engage the outerfront suspender-buttons of a pair of pants. The center of this upper rodis also 4o bent into a loop or ring to receive a hook for the suspensionof the trussed hanger carrying the pantaloons. Two wire hooks areprovided to swing freely on the upper rod, one on each side of thecenter, to engage the rear suspen- 5 tier-buttons and prevent a saggingof the rear portion of the pantaloons band when suspended by the endhooks.

In the accompanying drawing, the figure IS an elevation of my lmproveddevice as applied to a pair of pantaloons, the front edge of thewaistband being broken away to show the engagement of the swinging bookswith the rear suspender-buttons represented in dotted lines.

A is the upper rod of the hanger, formed of stout wire and curved fromend to end. This curved rod is bent in the center to form anoutwardly-projecting loop, B. terminating in a ring, C, and the lowerend of the loop is closed by a transverse wire rod, D, bent at each endover and upon the main rod, so as to form a connection therewith, and,in effect, a continuation thereof.

E is the lower rod of the hanger, formed, likewise, of stout wire curvedfrom end to end. This wire is secured beneath the upper wire, A, so thatits curve shall be opposed to that of said upper wire, and its ends arebent over and upon the upper wire and thereto @cured at points aboutequidistant from the central loop, B.

The center of the lower rod, E, is connected to the center of the upperrod, A, or to the rod D, closing its central loop by means of atransverse wire rod, E, which is secured at each end, and forms a brace,serving to keep the upper and lower rods in proper relative position andto complete the truss formed thereby. The ends of the upper rod, A, ofthe truss are made to project beyond the ends of the lower rod, E, andare bent to form one or more loops, G G, adapted to engage the buttonsof the pantaloons. By forming a number of loops, Gr Gr, the truss isadapted for use with pantaicons of different dimensions,-the proximateloops serving-to engage buttons upon narrow 8 waists, and those fartherremoved the buttons upon pants of larger dimensions.

. Eli are swinging hooks secured to the upper rod, A, one upon each sideof its center,

and which are of such length as to readily o reach and support the backbuttons or the waistband of the pants when the front buttons are engagedby the looped ends of the rod. These hooks H H are free to slide uponthe rod, so that they are easily brought into proper 5 position toengage the buttons.

The ring U in the center of the upper rod may be formed without the loopB, thus dispensing with the transverse wire D; but the use of the loopis advantageous in bringing the rod upon each side of the ring into thesame plane and in preventing the formation of a heavy knot, consequentupon the wrapping of the end of the brace-rod F about the doublethickness of the ring which is required to fasten said brace.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The truss pantaloons-hanger consisting of an upper curved rodprovided with loops at its ends, an oppositely-curved rod Whose ends aresecured to the first, and a transverse bracerod serving to maintain thecentral interval SHERBURN WHEELWRIGHT.

Witnesses:

J. F. ACKER, J r., Gno. H. BRANDON.

